McCullough v. Wyandanch Union Free School District’s Empirical Analysis
187 F.3d 272 · 1999
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 17 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Iqbal v. Hasty (2007), Velez v. Levy (2005)
31 federal appellate · 17 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Crawford-El v. Britton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question is not what a lawyer would learn or intuit from researching case law, but what a reasonable person in the defendant's position should know about the constitutionality of the conduct.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o additional inquiry or analysis is necessary”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is sufficient overlap between the qualified immunity issue and the issue raised by the remaining [defendants] ... because no additional inquiry or analysis is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.